In two months the mobile stock-trading ship the “Interstellar Ambition” will end it’s first tour in Rheinland and is expected to provide her services in Kusari. To that end we will have to traverse the sigma-13 system to get from Frankfurt to Honshu.
We are planing to stay in close proximity to the tradelanes, as they mark the shortest route between the two jumpgates.
The “Interstellar Ambition” is a completely-retrofitted "Nephilim" Zoner Mobile Colony Ship. However, due to the nature of it’s use, i.e. being a mobile stock-market she does not have the capacity to fire, nor to carry any guns other than those purely for defence against fighters (secondary guns).
The ship is operated by the stock-trading company “Kelly Stock Exchange LLC” which also operates the “Las Palmas Interstellar Stock Market” and is headquartered in the city of Las Palmas on the Planet Gran Canaria in Omega-49.
My company is known for providing a sirius-wide real-time stock-trading network for everybody willing to try his hand in trading stocks. We also provide courses in stock-trading and in the related fields of risk assessment, data management, processing, and visualization and decision making.
I'm the security division supervisor, so you need to ask this premission from me. We see no problem in having your ship pass through the territory of Gas Miners Guild, however, we would like to ask you to attach some details:
1) Proof of good or, at least, neutral relations with Gas Miners Guild.
2) Proof of loadout.
3) How many days do you need to go through the space of Gas Miners Guild.
4) Cargo manifest of your ship.
After it we will grant you premission to pass through Gas Miners Guild space. This precautionary measure is caused by the high activity of smugglers in Sigma systems, so I hope that you will understand our desire to keep you from it.
This comm was directed to the Guildmistress herself, in order to establish first contact between our companies by way of necessity. i.e. asking for passage. This is why general information about Kelly Stock Exchange was included, in order to see if the Guild would have any interest in our services.
Personally, I do think that it is always advantageous to diversify ones economy, but it seems that the Guild has no interest in our services and I will, of course, respect that and cross your space at best speed. This will take somewhere between 24 and 48hours depending on traffic and navigational circumstances. My company has never traversed the Sigma-13 system with a Nephilim-sized ship, so we would like to have some buffer time.
Furthermore, I completely understand your sense of caution, especially since it seems common to label the Interstellar Ambition as a warship. Simply, she does bear the resemblance of her more potent brethren.
However, As this is, as discussed above, our first contact between KSE and GMG, I am not sure how I am to prove “good or neutral” standing with the Guild. I think it’s suffice to say, that me reaching out to to Guild, proves that I have no ill intentions towards GMG.
Same with cargo, I’m not sure how significant a current inventory is for a passage that will take place in two months time. As cargo goes, aside from basic provisions the ship only caries it’s personal along with our resident experts and guest-speakers for our tour within Kusari space. A snapshot of the Cargo at the day of passage is entirely possible and probably more meaningful in terms of smuggling.
For everything else, please see the files attached to this message.
the Gas Miners Guild is not directly uninterested in any stock exchange market, whether by a single person or a whole company, especially since our contact with Interspace Commerce has proven to be a great disappointment. Not only that, I am very interested in such a business even, provided I can have some sources of liability, what your success rates are and so on. Maybe we can profit out of this but we will see about that. For now, let me tell you that you are permitted to pass Sigma-13. The best would be to have at least one GMG Security ship escorting you, if needed, that can be me or a representative on the Yukari Maru. This requires a specific time, though, so I can plan a possible escort.
Thank you for your answer, you will receive a detailed flight-plan as soon as possible, prefereably via S.K.Y.P.3.-encryption
Regarding “Kelly Stock Exchange”, my business simply leasing access to our proprietary state-of-the-art real-time high-frequency-capable stock-exchange network. So success rate is dependant on the skill of the person renting our services. However, we do provide schooling, courses and further education in the art of trading stock and related fields.
Incidentally, the Interstallar Ambition is currently on a mission to give potential customers the real experience of trading with our network, and is providing aforementioned education in stock trading in specialized seminars and workshops.
With your blessing, we can start pre-selling our workshops and courses within GMG-space and if there is enough of a response we will extend the mission of the Interstellar Ambition for a while longer. On top of that extension of her cruise-schedule to incorporate GMG-space during regular operation is also an option.
As for Interspace Commerce. I know one should not talk badly about former employers. However, as you may know, I’ve resigned from my duties as Chariman of the Board of Directors of Interspace commerce as the Board of Directors grew complacent, negligent towards good business practices and indifferent towards my advise as the most senior member of the Board. So in a twisted way, you may be very glad to not have struck a deal with IC.